Cleaning device for cut-off wires.



No 761,410. PATENTED MAY 31, '1904.

J. A. SALGUE.

CLEANING DEVICE FOR GUT-OFF WIRES.

urmonron FILED APR. 2,, 1904. no MODEL.

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JOHN A. SALGUE, or ROME, GEORGIA, A ss'ienon TO CHAMBERS BRoTI-IERs Patented May 31, 1904.

PATENT ,OFFIc COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

i .CLE'ANING DEVICEEOR ouT-oF -wm'Es.

srnfo'rricarlonformm 5am Letters Patent N0."761',41O, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed April 2, 190{.. Srial Nil- 201,236. (N0 model.)

To all 'whom/ 7115 711107) concern: f

Be it known that I, J OHN' AuSALGIiE, a eiti-,

zen of the United States, residing-at "Romain the county of Floyd and State of Georgia,

have inventeda new and useful Cleaning Device for Out-Off Wires, of which the following is a'specification.

My invention relates'to cleaning devices for cut-off wires, and is an improvement in the de' vices shown and described in Letters Patent to Cyrus Chambers, J r.-, No. 362,204, dated May 3, 1887 Inthedevice described in said patent there is shown in Figures 9 and-10a wheel or hub having equidistant-radial arms, to the expanded free ends of which are'seciired elastic steel bows havinga U shape with tapering sides. To the outer extensions of these bows are secured cut-off wires, .which are held by said steel bows with yielding tension, as clearly described by said patent. This cut-off is rotated with a velocity regulated to correspond with the speed of movement of the bar of clay to be cut, so that the wires may be moved across the path of travel of the moving bar of clay to 'cut the same in even lengths or bricks. There is also shown in connection with the device described in the above-mentioned patent a wiper or cleaning devicefor removing the dirt, roots, &c.', collected by the wires as they pass through the clay bar and which-wouldtend to prevent the wires from making a clean cut of the clay bar. The cleaning device as described in said patent comprises a curved plate provided with awiper of india-rubber orother suitable flexible material which is adapted to traverse the length of the wire after the same has passed through the bar of clay,

the purpose being that the wire by the friction of the wiper in traversing its lengthclinging roots and dirt at one end of the wire.

where the same isjoined to the'end of the spring-bow. I

The object of my present invention is to have passed through the bar 5.

eliminatethe'objections presentin the device above described and to provide cheap, simple, 5 and efficient ,means for disengaging all dirt, roots, and foreign substances from the wires "after the same have passed through the bar of clay or other plastic material.

I accomplish my object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in

which- Fig. 1 is a sideelevationof the cut-off-wire device and my improved cleaner and a portion of the machine in connection with which it may beoperated. 1 Fig. 2 isa top or plan view of a cut-01f wire and its supporting-bow and the cleaner in the operative position. Fig.

3 is a cross-section on lines 3 3 of Fig. 2.

the rollers 7. The hub 1 is so positioned as I to rotate the bows 3, so as to bring the wires 4: across the path of travel of the bar 5, so as to sever the same in length, as shown at 9. A second endless belt 8 forms a continuation of the path of travel of the severed portions of the bar. This second belt is caused to move at a greater velocity than that of belt 6, so that the severed bricks are caused to separate from'each other for convenience of handling and also to provide spaces, such as 5 at 10, forthe return of the wires 4 after-they As the bow 3 moves upwardly in. the direction of the arrow after having passed through the bar 5 the taut wire 4 encounters the spring tongue 9 or plectrum 11, which is secured by the bolt .12 to the arm 13, which is adjustably secured by means of bolt-an'd-slot engagement at 14 to the framework of the machine.

' The spring tongue or plectrum 11 is pref I erably slightly resilient or it may be nearly rigid, depending upon the amount of resilience of bows 3, or both may possess such resilience as to permit the wire to be suificiently flexed to pass the end of plectrum 11, when by the resilience of the bow 3 it will be snapped taut again into the straight position and so vibrated as to effectively disengage therefrom all particles of clinging roots, dirt, &c., or other foreign matter, leaving the wire always clean and unencumbered for the next cut. I

What I claim is 1. In a cut-ofi-wire device, a plectrum projecting into the path of travel of the wire.

2. In combination with a cut-off Wire, and means for maintaining the same under spring tension, means for moving the wire, and a plectrum projecting into the path of travel of the Wire.

3. In a Wire cut-off device, the combination of a Wire, means for maintaining the same under spring tension, means for moving the same across the path of travel of the object to be cut, and a plectrum projecting also into the path of travel of the wire.

4:. In a cut-off-wire device, means for maintaining the wire under spring tension, means for moving the wire across the path of travel of the object to be cut, and a spring-tongue projecting into the path of travel of the wire to engage it after it has cut the material, to cause the vibration of the same.

5. In a cut-ofl-wire device, means for maintaining the wire under spring tension, means for moving the wire across the path of travel of the object to be cut, and a spring-tongue projecting into the path of travel of the wire to yieldingly engage it, after each cut, to cause the vibration of the same.

6. In a device for cutting material, the combination of a cutting-wire, means for maintaining the same under spring tension, means for moving the wire across the path of travel of the object to be cut, a spring-tongue, and adjustable means for maintaining the same in the path of travel of said wire to encounter it after cutting the material.

7. In a cutting device, the combination of a plurality of resilient bows mounted on a rotating hub, cutting-wires stretched across the extremities of said bows adapted to be moved across the path of travel of the material to be cut, and a pleetrum projecting into the path of travel of the wires to vibrate the same after they have cut the material.

JOHN A. SALGUE.

Witnesses:

J Gnovnn MoGnnn, J. R. ROUNSAVILLE. 

